(05-24-2020, 01:33 PM)Cowboypirate Wrote: It's good to be able to get back on the forum and start getting caught back up with the reports. Cookie sends her love and txs for the kind thoughts. She is recovering fast but we both know after two of these events that life will be changing for us. Working on what that means....

But the good news, she says she is ready to go out and work on improving our score on the board. Will do a cautious trial run in the next couple days. Maybe we will see ya John/Forest on the banks as she is determined to pull a 30 out of the refugee

Cookie & CBP : We were out there today. No luck as far as fish go. Did get a fair photo of a Crane that was stalking something.

Not too long after that photo we saw that it caught something. Looked like maybe a small field mouse, or Vole. So it did better than we did.......

TCM has to watch the grandson tomorrow even though we are both federal employees and are off for the Memorial Day Holiday. But I will be back up at the river with my boat. Water level from the hunt club down river to the bottom gates / bridges is up quite a bit. But the water level at the Reeder bridge and thru that channel is way down and almost stopped.

Well, I did make it back to the Bear River today with the boat. Didn't catch anything. But it was calm, quiet, peaceful and I was on the water, so I can't complain.
On my way out today about 2:30, I think I figured out why I didn't catch anything. EVERY accessible spot along the river from the boat ramp to the Reeder bridge had at least 1 or 2 bank tanglers. Some spots had what looked like entire families. Beach umbrellas, ice chests, even a few portable grills, and lots of lines in the water.

So since this is for cheers and jeers, let me be the first to cheer for the South catching up to within .5 points of the North! And for jeers: nanny-nanny-nanny we're on a roll and we're gonna pass you right up. Why, we have people like Richard and Vi and BLK and Pisco who have just started to roll. Can you hear those big feet clompin' behind you, North?

Well if any year is lining up for a South win in the contest, this might be it. The river flows have been really odd this year and really low. When I drove over the river up by Tremonton on Friday, it was flowing at mid to late summer levels. Meaning it was barely flowing at all. Last year there was a lot of water flowing clear through mid summer, including all the canals and side channels. This year they have already shut the water off to one of the major canals. The north still has some good fish on the board, not a single fish under 30" in the top 10. But I am really impressed with the numbers of 30+ fish from the south. You guys are killing it! Still have til Oct 15th, give us your best shot!

Due to late start and etc we decided to go till Halloween or Oct 31st this year. Also need to say sorry for poor coverage lately I’m not getting much time to go online. Oh did want to clarify a math error and team north is about 5 points ahead on the top ten, but team south has a bigger lead on the top twenty. 306 to 301.5 or something like that. Sorry closed my spreadsheet. Anyway hopefully I’ll get more time to update things. Sure appreciate Forest keeping things going for us this year and great job on catching a ton of big fish so far. Keep it up. Later Jeff

When things get stressful think I'll go fish'en and worry about it tomorrow!